英语科普小知识 气候变化将使动植物数量大幅下降.docVIP

More than half of common plants and one third of the animals could see a dramatic decline this century due to climate change, according to research from the University of East Anglia. Research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change looked at 50,000 globally widespread and common species and found that more than one half of the plants and one third of the animals will lose more than half of their climatic range by 2080 if nothing is done to reduce the amount of global warming and slow it down. ? This means that geographic ranges of common plants and animals will shrink globally and biodiversity will decline almost everywhere. ? Plants, reptiles and particularly?amphibians（两栖动物）?are expected to be at highest risk. Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, Amazonia and Australia would lose the most species of plants and animals. And a major loss of plant species is projected for North Africa, Central Asia and South-eastern Europe. ? But acting quickly to?mitigate（减轻，缓和）?climate change could reduce losses by 60 per cent and buy an additional 40 years for species to adapt. This is because this mitigation would slow and then stop global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial times (1765). Without this mitigation, global temperatures could rise by 4 degrees Celsius by 2100. ? The study was led by Dr Rachel Warren from UEAs school of Environmental Sciences and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Collaborators include Dr.Jeremy VanDerWal at James Cook University in Australia and Dr Jeff Price, also at UEAs school of Environmental Sciences and the Tyndall Centre. The research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). 超过一半的常见的植物和动物的三分之一，可以看到本世纪初急剧下降，由于气候变化，根据从东英吉利大学的研究。看着50,000全球广泛和普遍的物种，今天发表在“自然”杂志上气候变化的研究发现，一半以上的植物和动物的三分之一将失去一半以上的气候范围内，到2080年，如果没有做是为了减少全球变暖和慢下来。 ? 这意味着常见的植物和动物的地理范围将缩小全球生物多样性下降几乎无处不在。 ? 植物，爬行动物，特别是两栖动物（两栖动物）预计将在最高的风险。撒哈拉以南非洲，中美洲，亚马逊河和澳大利亚将输得最惨的植物和动物物种。预计北非，中亚和东南欧和重大